#AmericanWriters
XXV Wild nights—Wild nights! Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury!
857 Uncertain lease—develops lustre On Time Uncertain Grasp, appreciation Of Sum—
269 Bound—a trouble— And lives can bear it! Limit—how deep a bleeding go! So—many—drops—of vital scarlet—
390 It’s coming—the postponeless Crea… It gains the Block—and now—it gai… Chooses its latch, from all the ot… Enters—with a “You know Me—Sir”?
LIX I TOOK my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold.
We play at paste, Till qualified for pearl, Then drop the paste, And deem ourself a fool. The shapes, though, were similar,
925 Struck, was I, not yet by Lightni… Lightning—lets away Power to perceive His Process With Vitality.
Spring comes on the World - I sight the Aprils - Hueless to me until thou come As, till the Bee Blossoms stand negative,
DEAR March, come in! How glad I am! I looked for you before. Put down your hat— You must have walked—
Of so divine a Loss We enter but the Gain, Indemnity for Loneliness That such a Bliss has been.
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
Perhaps I asked too large— I take—no less than skies— For Earths, grow thick as Berries, in my native town— My Basked holds—just—Firmaments—
I DIED for beauty, but was scarc… Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was la… In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed…
185 “Faith” is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see— But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
580 I gave myself to Him— And took Himself, for Pay, The solemn contract of a Life Was ratified, this way—